Volume 13 Chapter 7:  (Patreon)

Volume 13 Chapter 7: 

During Knight class, Keith stood before Krystal with his shield raised, holding onto his spear. The woman dashed forward with blinding speed, stabbing at him in a blurry. But that was when Keith blocked most of the strikes with his shield. It was a stalemate between the two; one had speed, while the other had defense. Neither side could get an inch into the other. 

The two continued to do this for quite some time before Tennol called them, "You two, get down now." 

"Understood." "...Yes." Keith calmly walked down while Krystal's lips pouted as she walked down. It was clear she didn't want to do so. The man sighed, "Come on, you were close this time."

"The fact that you said this time makes this even worse." It was like she had no shot at beating him. 

"...." 

Krystal wanted to fight against him right now, and that was when Helm came over to him, “Keith, could you help me with the positioning?” 

“Sure, I can help out.” Keith smiled.

“General, help us out as well!”

“Yeah!”

The others from F-class quickly walked over to him and continued to do this. But when he was doing this, Krystal and Jack watched him. This became the usual. It was not something the others could do. 

That was how much trust Keith had with F-class. That would never break that. Keith nodded as he helped them out in any way they could. But as he was doing this, “What's the matter?” One Krystal was standing off to the side, staring at the whole situation.

“...Nothing.” 

“Aww, don't tell me you're jealous.” Keith chuckled before bringing her close, “Come on, I'll race you.” A good little competition would help her out.

“...”

“No competition.”

“Then how about a ride?” Without any hesitation, Keith picked up Krystal and jumped on the horse.

“What are you doing?!” Krystal blinked as she stared at him. But that only caused him to laugh.

"Carrying you onto my horse? What about it?"

Do you not notice how the others are staring at us?!” You may not be embarrassed by me! And it seemed he didn't care about this at all as he grinned, which caused Tennol to scold,

“Stop flirting and get back here!” Tennol sighed, “Everyone, I want to say good work on the festival. But there are also some things you can't forget. The finals are coming up, and you can't forget about this." 

“Understood!” They all understood that there was a final. When that was done, Keith returned to the island, and that was when he noticed how Herrick and the others were jumping up and down. Keith tilted his head as Fira and the little animals came to his side, “What’s the matter with them?”

“They ate too much sugar this time!”

“Raghh!” Herrick and Melor continued to clash like nothing was wrong, which only caused Keith to shake his head. But that was when Carolyn muttered, “Those two are definitely going to tire themselves out." 

“Guess I’m going to do something cooking; you guys do something about that.” Keith stretched his hand into the air, and he was followed by the spirit squad into the kitchen. Seafood scampi. He brought out all the ingredients he was going to make. As he did so, that was when he thought about it,

I need to get some wine. Wine was a good way to be incorporated into his cooking. As Keith continued to make the sauce, one pan was filled with scallops as he cooked them. 

“Po!Po!” Lei and Mir jumped up and down as they stared at the pan. Keith chuckled as he gave the three scallops, “Give me a few more seconds, I’m going to do this.” Keith continued to work quickly as he finished off the dish. After he was done, he brought it over to the table.

“Thank you so much!” While they were eating, he noticed an oddity, “What’s the matter with you, Herrick?” The man was eating the meat so calmly. This was odd when you are reminded of how dangerous and ferocious he was when consuming all the other food.

“KInda wanted to eat that variant.” 

“Ahh,” Keith and the others remembered that. In the Class-F section, they had decided to use a variant to be in a raffle, which had caused everyone to go crazy as a variant wasn’t something that could be thrown around like that. And the winner was none other than Herrick’s father, Othniel.

“Father didn’t even  let me have a bite of it!” Herrick mumbled as he slumped on the dining table, but his mouth was still slurping on some noodles. That only caused Leona to stroke his face, “There, there.”

“...Keith, why didn’t you keep some of the variant meat?!” Nephele pouted. Since this child had gotten it, he could have obviously saved some for them.

“Who said I didn’t?”

“EH?” Everyone turned up and stared at the man. Keith grinned, “Do you think I would send all of the variant meat away like that?” There was no way he was that much of a fool. He still kept a stash for himself. 

“Then cook it as well!”

“Nope, going to save it for a perfect time.” Keith grinned. There was thing he could do with it and he was going to save it!

“...” 

“So mean.” The others couldn’t help but stare. But that was when Keith muttered, “Keep talking like that, and I will take away this pasta!”

“We’ll eat!” The others didn’t say anything as they savored the meal that was placed over them. Later at night, when Keith was prepared to go to bed, Carolyn crawled into his bed.

“By the way, where is Grandpa Cadmus?” Sohma was here.

“Ahh, Long Yueying and Yukiko are taking care of him.”

“....Oh.” 

“What are you doing?”

“Ruby said he wanted to sleep with papa.”

“...” Doesn’t answer the question of why are you here. He didn’t mind the little baby as the others got along with one another.  

“Because I felt lonely without Ruby.” She didn’t hesitate to hold onto Keith with a smile. But that only caused the man to sigh, “Didn’t you guys lose the bet?”

“This is different, I’m just lonely now.”

“...” Keith sighed as he patted the princess’s head as he went to bed with her. This was something he wasn’t going to win against. 

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